Asia

Mapping Out a North Korean Peace Process 0
- Analysis
- December 11, 2017
By John Gruetzner

There are ultimately four critical components to a peace process:

The first component is to submit and then finalize a draft of a document acceptable to the original signatories that converts the armistice agreement signed on 27 …
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Canada Doubling Down on Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula 0
- Analysis
- December 11, 2017
By John Gruetzner

Canada has announced that it is co-hosting a 16-nation summit with the United States early next year to explore options to engage North Korea. Prime Minister Trudeau is also likely to meet this month with US Secretary …
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Why Taiwan is an International Issue 0
- Analysis
- September 20, 2017
China works hard to convince the world that any decision about Taiwan is entirely a Chinese domestic affair. This has not, however, always been the official line of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1936, when the Republic of China (ROC) …
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China’s Republican Flag: A Conundrum for Canada–Taiwan Relations 0
- Analysis
- July 30, 2017
China’s Republican flag — the French-inspired tricolore representing nationalism, democracy, and peoples’ livelihood in Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People — was the national flag of all of China from 1928 until the founding of the People’s Republic of …
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In Memoriam: Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, murdered 23 April 2016 0
- Analysis
- April 20, 2017
By Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a …
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Canada–China Free Trade Part 2: Forging an Agreement 0
- Analysis
- March 10, 2017
by John Gruetzner and Phil Calvert

A new free trade agreement with China, in whatever form it takes, should be advanced within the context of a broader strategy for Canada’s engagement with China, particularly (but not exclusively) the strategy of …
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Canada–China Free Trade Part 1: Business before Politics 0
- Analysis
- March 10, 2017
by John Gruetzner and Phil Calvert

Canada and China have begun exploratory discussions on a possible free trade agreement (FTA). Expanding Canada’s economic ties with China and moving the commercial relationship forward is a positive step. If it is properly …
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North Korea: Testing China’s Patience 0
- Analysis
- October 7, 2015
^{Postcard from North Korea
Photo: John Pavelka, Creative Commons License}

Anniversaries have always been important in Socialist countries.

For the people, it means a day off from the humdrum of workaday life with maybe an extra ration of meat or …
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Making Peace in a Divided World: New Roles for the United Nations?0
- Analysis
- October 1, 2015
There is no more annoying phrase in discussions of international affairs than “If the United Nations did not exist, we would have to invent it!” It is certainly true that the world urgently needs an effective collective security organization …
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On the Fence: Canada’s Role in the Western Pacific Through An Election Lens 0
- Analysis
- September 17, 2015
Canada’s election, in the 70^th anniversary year of the conclusion of World War II, should be a time to ponder Canada’s role in the Western Pacific. Most pressing is the challenge of how Canada should respond to China’s increasingly …
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China’s Domino Tactics Boost Infrastructure Bank 0
- Analysis
- March 22, 2015
China is looking ever the experienced super-power. In a week it has scooped up all the important European dominos, humiliating a U.S. government which has lobbied hard to block the launch of China’s new $50b Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank …
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What Japan’s F-35 Decision Means—And Doesn’t Mean 0
- Analysis
- December 21, 2011
By Philippe Lagassé and Srdjan Vucetic

The F-35 program has received mostly bad press for months—until the government of Japan made a formal announcement on December 19 that it had selected Lockheed Martin’s stealth design as the winner of a …
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